zip_file_extra_field_set(3)

zip_file_extra_field_set3

Set extra field for file in zip

Usage

#include <zip.h>

int

zip_file_extra_field_set(zip_t *archive, zip_uint64_t index, zip_uint16_t extra_field_id, zip_uint16_t extra_field_index, const zip_uint8_t *extra_field_data, zip_uint16_t len, zip_flags_t flags);

Library

libzip (-lzip)

Overview

The zip_file_extra_field_set() function sets the extra field with ID (two-byte signature) extra_field_id and index extra_field_index for the file at position index in the zip archive. The extra field's data will be set to extra_field_data and length len. If a new entry shall be appended, set extra_field_index to ZIP_EXTRA_FIELD_NEW.

At least one of the following flags must be set:

ZIP_FL_CENTRAL

Set extra field in the archive's central directory.

ZIP_FL_LOCAL

Set extra field in the local file headers.

Please note that the extra field IDs 0x0001 (ZIP64 extension), 0x6375 (Infozip UTF-8 comment), and 0x7075 (Infozip UTF-8 file name) can not be set using zip_file_extra_field_set() since they are set by libzip(3) automatically when needed.

Return values

Upon successful completion 0 is returned. Otherwise, -1 is returned and the error code in archive is set to indicate the error.

Errors

zip_file_extra_field_set() fails if:

[ZIP_ER_INVAL]

The extra field size is too large (ID and length need 4 bytes; the maximum length of all extra fields for one file combined is 65536 bytes). This error also occurs if extra_field_index is too large.

[ZIP_ER_MEMORY]

Required memory could not be allocated.

[ZIP_ER_NOENT]

index is not a valid file index in archive.

Releases

7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 8
  2. 9
  3. 10–12
  4. 13–Arch

History

zip_file_extra_field_set() was added in libzip 0.11.

Authors

Dieter Baron ⟨[email protected]⟩ and Thomas Klausner ⟨[email protected]⟩

From libzip 1.11.4-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.